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THE Chadwick lectures in the University of London were established in 1907 for a period of five years, the endowment being derived from the funds of the trust created by the will of a great sanitarian, Sir Edwin Chadwick, K.C.B. The trustees have provided that two short courses of lectures shall be delivered each year, at the University, upon subjects relating to sanitary science, with special reference to recent advances in hygiene and municipal engineering. In the lectures under review, Mr. W. D. Scott-Moncrieff deals with the subject of sewerage and sewage disposal in four lectures. At the outset he deals with facts which are mainly historical, tracing the evolution of our present methods, and summarising the Acts of Parliament and the reports of Royal and other Commissions relating to sewage disposal. He then proceeds to a critical survey of the various provisions which have been made, from time to time and in different places, for purifying sewage.
The Chadwick Lectures, University of London, Session 1907–8.
By W. D. Scott-Moncrieff. Pp. 79. (London: St. Bride's Press, Ltd., 1909.) Price 2s. net.
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The Chadwick Lectures, University of London, Session 1907–8. Nature 80, 397 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080397a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/080397a0